‘Gemeinplatz’ from Die Paradiesmaschine (2016). by Lydia Mischkulnig […]
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Untitled poems from This isnt happening
Untitled poems from This isnt happening (2017) By Ida Lórien Ringdal Translated from the Norwegian by Kristine B. Fostervold im not checking my phone i watch game of thrones im not checking my phone i go out and buy some pepsi max im not checking my phone its on the bed im not checking my […]
A Thousand Kilometres South (extract)
An extract from ‘A Thousand Kilometres South’ (2013) By Walter Jungwirth Translated from the German by Magdalena Steinhauser I sought the city to lose myself and find company or maybe just some change, and then there was this car that turned into the pedestrian zone from a side road and took me onto its bonnet. That […]
A Fig Adrift (extract)
An extract from ‘A Fig Adrift’ (1997) By Ju Translated from the Burmese by Thett Su San This is how I have been starting my days lately: close the door of my studio flat and stare at it all day. Outside the door are human feet going up and down the staircase. Feet in high-heeled […]
Twyford Rising: Land And Resistance by Helen Beynon
Twyford Rising: Land And Resistance is the first work of non-fiction by current UEA student Helen Beynon (aka Helen Baczkowska) and has recently been published by Sarsen Press, having been successfully crowd-funded. Helen is an ecologist, writer and environmental activist living in rural Norfolk. She regularly writes articles on local wildlife for Norfolk publications and […]
Luke Wright, Janice Okoh and Beth Crane shortlisted for BBC Audio Drama Awards
Three UEA Creative Writing graduates have been shortlisted for the 2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Luke Wright, who graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2003 is nominated in the Best Debut Performance category for Christabel. Janice Okoh (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) in 2008, is […]
He Who Hears the Dreams (extract)
An extract from ‘He Who Hears the Dreams’ (2019) by Selim Özdogan translated from the German by Lina Briks Keeping distance from people. I thought it would help. It did help, it had helped for years. And now…I thought she was lying. What kind of story was that? You wouldn’t have believed it either. […]
Foreword & Introduction to the MA in Literary Translation Anthology
Foreword by Cecilia Rossi Displacements What is the relationship between translation and place? Perhaps the most widely quoted definition of translation, especially when considering its etymology, is the one that implies a change of place, a movement across from one place to another, a carrying across of something from one point to another. But we […]
BCLT Translators in Residence: What Do We Translate?
What Do We Translate? William Gregory Last week, I was invited by AAT, the Spanish playwrights’ association, to join their translator-writer ‘speed-dating’ event. Many of the playwrights asked me what I was looking for. In other words, ‘what do I translate?’ Where to begin? First: what appeals to me, what speaks to me. But why […]
With a rootless lily held in front of him
The winner of the 2019 Plough Prize, ‘With a rootless lily held in front of him’ is taken from Heidi Williamson’s 2020 Bloodaxe collection Return by Minor Road. Like someone stepping slowly ahead of an old-fashioned car, or the person tasked with carrying the country’s Olympic flame, he must hold the lily as he walks, […]
